Search for Chelsea King

San Diego  BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: A body was reported found in Lake Hodges this afternoon during the search for missing teen Chelsea King.

The news broke shortly after the San Diego County Sheriff's Department postpone a news conference that had been scheduled for 3 p.m.

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The hundreds of volunteers gathered Tuesday morning to help search for missing Poway teenager Chelsea King are sticking to their message -- “Bring Chelsea Home” -- even though the unspoken fear is that it may not be possible to bring her home alive.

One couple, James and Vicki Byrne, said they had no choice but to come and help as the search entered its fifth day.

“I’ve got a son and daughter and two grandkids and I can’t just sit around at home,” said Vicki Byrne of Clairemont. “I’d rather do something productive, make a difference.”

James Byrne added emphatically: “It’s not a recovery thing.”

More than 4,000 volunteers have helped comb the areas in and around Rancho Bernardo Community Park. Chelsea, a 17-year-old Poway High School student, went missing there Thursday night after going there for an after-school run. Authorities have focused on nearby Lake Hodges with divers sifting the lake’s waters and investigators searching the shoreline for clues.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the sex offender suspected of abducting Chelsea widened as authorities linked him to a December assault and probed whether he had a role in last year’s disappearance of Escondido teenager Amber Dubois.

John Albert Gardner III, 30, a registered sex offender from Lake Elsinore, was arrested Sunday and is being held in the downtown Central Jail on suspicion of rape and murder in Chelsea’s disappearance. Gardner spent five years in prison after he was convicted 10 years ago of molesting a 13-year-old neighbor girl in his mother’s Rancho Bernardo townhouse.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on charges of rape and murder.

In an interview Monday, Chelsea’s father, Brent King, said he hoped the arrest would lead to his daughter’s whereabouts.

“They’ve put this, uh, I won’t even call him a person, in custody,” he said. “They feel they have enough evidence to keep him there and it is helping, I think, lead us to our daughter.”

A candlelight vigil is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Poway’s St. Michael Catholic Church, 15546 Pomerado Rd.